The Ceremony
La Cérémonie
The most famous dominatrix in France creates sadomasochist “Ceremonies” in her chateau. Catherine Robbe-Grillet, age 84, defies the relations between power and submission, sensuality and physical pain. She surrounds herself with brilliant characters, depicting complex lives on the other side of social conventional boundaries. Catherine writes sadomasochistic novels under pseudonym Jeanne De Berg.